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Google Maps At 10 Years Old

  • Re/code, Tuesday, February 10, 2015 11:18 AM
In honor of its tenth birthday, Re/Code is looking back at the history of Google Maps. “When it was born, it was a paper atlas in living form, with no pages to turn,” Re/Code recall. “Instead of online mapping leader MapQuest’s printable list of directions, navigation routes were overlaid on top of the map itself.” Ten years later, Google Maps boasts more than a billion users, and stands as Google’s second-largest property after only its search engine.
 

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